Bluebird
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Genevieve Graham
Bluebird by Alberta-born, Nova-Scotia-based author Genevieve Graham walks us through yet another period—the Great War and the years of healing afterwards and the chaos and opportunities of Prohibition—as well as a modern perspective that draws all threads together. Graham traces the story of current-day museum curator Cassie Simmons who comes across a case of whisky labelled Bailey Brothers’ Best during a local home renovation. Her special interest in the rumrunners who ferried illegal alcohol across the Detroit River during Prohibition leads her to investigate the Bailey brothers and the role they may have played in this historical moment.
Meanwhile, back in 1918, Corporal Jerry Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is badly wounded in an explosion after planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. He ends up under the care of Adele Savard, a Canadian nursing sister serving in a Belgium field hospital. Jerry and Adele connect deeply during his convalescence—she is a reminder of home for him as they come from the same part of Ontario. They cross paths again after the war, scarred by all that has happened—and find themselves in the midst of Prohibition and its risks, fighting for a new and better life.
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